In summer 2027, the Fondation Beyeler will devote a major exhibition to Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), bringing together around 100 works from all phases of the great artist’s career. The exhibition will feature sculptures made of wood, plaster, bronze, latex and other materials as well as ink drawings, watercolours, oil paintings and some of her monumental Cells, installations that rank among Bourgeois’s most significant works. A selection of her iconic spider sculptures will be displayed across both museum buildings and the expanded park. The exhibition guides visitors through the diverse artistic forms of expression in Louise Bourgeois’s oeuvre and illustrates the close connection between her work and psychological themes Her quest for balance, her engagement with the formal possibilities of gravity and her search for a centre can also be viewed against this backdrop. Through her forms, Bourgeois touches upon the reaches of what often remains unconscious and is hard to articulate, which is what makes her work so compelling. As one of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Louise Bourgeois shaped the development of modern sculpture, finding radically new ways of probing essential themes such as the body, memory and identity.